Army Leadership Flashcards
What is an Army leader?
An Army leader is anyone who by virtue of assumed role or assigned responsibility inspires and influences people to accomplish organizational goals.
What is leadership?
Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization.
What is toxic leadership?
Toxic leadership is a combination of self-centered attitudes, motivations, and behaviors that have adverse effects on subordinates, the organization and mission performance.
What is purpose?
Purpose gives subordinates the reason to act in order to achieve a desired outcome.
What is direction?
Providing clear direction involves communicating how to accomplish a mission: prioritizing tasks, assigning responsibility for completion, and ensuring subordinates understand the standard.
What is motivation?
Motivation supplies the will to do what is necessary to accomplish a mission.
Describe the “Be, Know, and Do” of leadership.
Army leadership begins with what the leader must Be, the values and attributes that shape a leader’s character. Your skills are those things you KNOW how to do, your competence in everything from the technical side of you job to the people skills a leader requires. but character and knowledge, while absolutely necessary, are not enough. You cannot be effective, you cannot be a leader, until you apply what you know, until you act and DO what you must.
What are the three principal ways that leaders can develop others through which they provide knowledge and feedback?
Coaching, counseling, and mentoring.
A leader’s effectiveness is dramatically enhanced by understanding and developing what areas?
- Military Bearing.
- Physical Fitness.
- Confidence.
- Resilience.
What is military bearing?
Projecting a commanding presence, a professional image of authority.
What is physical fitness?
Having sound health, strength, and endurance, which sustain emotional health and conceptual abilities under prolonged stress.
What is confidence?
Projecting self-confidence and certainty in the units ability to succeed in whatever it does; able to demonstrate composure and outward calm through steady control over emotion.
What is resilience?
Showing an tendency to recover quickly from setbacks, shock, injuries, adversity, and stress while maintaining a mission and organizational focus.
What are the Army values?
Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless-service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage.
What is communication?
A process of providing information.
